Tak! quoted The Tomb of Dragons by Sarah Monette
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of …
Why do you feed the cats, othala?
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Tak! quoted Dual Memory by Sue Burke
Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis , returns with Dual Memory, a standalone …
I want to feel everything, the light, the noise, the dark, even the cold and fear.
— Dual Memory by Sue Burke
Tak! quoted Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA …
We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other.
— Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
Tak! quoted Roadside Picnic by Борис Стругацкий
Roadside Picnic is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation that …
The other day, we’re standing in the repository; it’s evening already, nothing left to do but dump the lab suits, then I can head down to the Borscht for my daily dose of booze.
— Roadside Picnic by Борис Стругацкий, Борис Натанович Стругацкий, Arkady Strugatsky, and 1 other
Tak! quoted Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
The trick is remembering that it’s all a game.
— Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
Tak! quoted Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
He didn't like beating people.
Tak! quoted Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale …
I am not on this beach.
— Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
Tak! quoted After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a …
It's times like these, when I’m hunkered in a doorway, waiting for a food market of dubious legality to be set up, that I find myself wishing I could eat like everyone else.
— After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)
Tak! quoted Planetfall by Emma Newman
One secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…
Renata Ghali believed in …
Every time I come down here I think about my mother.
— Planetfall by Emma Newman
Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay …
I hadn’t seen Juan in years, not since I left the commune.
— These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
Tak! quoted Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio (The Sun Eater, #1)
It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the …
Light. The light of that murdered sun still burns me.
— Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio (The Sun Eater, #1)
Tak! quoted Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
They call me Mr. Scales because I’m a snake.
— Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Tak! quoted The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used …
When the multiverse was confirmed, the spiritual and scientific communities both counted it as evidence of their validity.
Tak! quoted Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, …
Loret had spent the voyage braced for pirates.
Tak! quoted House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
It is a vision of hell.
— House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)